crontab for FreeBSD

[Larry Schmid]

Eh, silly me.  I misread and now I'm replying to myself.


Try:

0 0-23 * * * ./filename

The second field is hours.  Specifying a range implies hourly execution
within the range.

You may still want the full path though.  :^)

Larry




----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Schmid" <larry@penguinnetworking.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: crontab for FreeBSD


> Try using the full path for <filename>
>
> HTH
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Parrish" <cparrish@home.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 2:44 PM
> Subject: crontab for FreeBSD
>
>
> > Okay yet another stupid newbie question. I've gotten too used
> > to/etc/cron.hourly it seems. Now I'm on a FreeBSD box and I can't seem
> > to get a cron job to run hourly.
> >
> > I tried crontab -e
> >
> > then
> >
> > 0 * * * * ./filename
> >
> >
> > only that doesn't seem to be working what am I doing wrong?
> >
> >
> > Carl Parrish.
> >
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